Chapter 62 Our army in the Central Plains occupied Nanyang[1]

(November 5, 1948) [Xinhua News Agency, Zhengzhou, 5th] Under the great victory of the People's Liberation Army, Wang Lingyun, the enemy defending Nanyang, abandoned the city and fled south on the afternoon of the 4th. Our army immediately occupied Nanyang.Nanyang is Guwan County. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu [2] fought for this city.Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu[3] of the Later Han Dynasty raised troops here to launch a war against the Wang Mang Dynasty[4] and founded the Later Han Dynasty.According to folklore, twenty-eight places, that is, the twenty-eight main cadres of Liu Xiu, were mostly born in Nanyang.In the past year, Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to Nanyang. He once set up a so-called "appeasement zone" here, with Wang Lingyun as the commander, in an attempt to prevent the development of the People's Liberation Army to the south.Last month, Bai Chongxi[5] used the strength of the three armies of the Huangwei Corps[6] to operate for a whole month, trying to open up the transportation road between Tongyang and Nanyang, but he failed to achieve his goal.Recently, due to the general corruption of the Jiang army, he was forced to concentrate the strength of nearly a hundred divisions on the entire southern front in two areas centered on Xuzhou and Hankou. He abandoned Kaifeng two weeks ago and now Nanyang.From then on, the whole territory of Henan, except for Xinxiang and Anyang in the north of Henan, Lingbao and Yanxiang in the west of Henan, and Queshan, Xinyang, Huangchuan, Guangshan, Shangcheng, Gushi and other places in the south of Henan, has been completely controlled by the enemy. I liberate.In July last year, since the People's Liberation Army on the southern front began its heroic march into the enemy's rear, in the past year or so, apart from annihilating a large number of regular Kuomintang troops, its greatest achievements have been in the Dabie Mountains (Hubei-Henan District), Western Anhui District, Western Henan District, Southern Shaanxi District, Tongbai District, Jianghan District, and Jianghuai District (namely, the eastern Anhui area) restored and established stable bases, established seven military regions, and greatly expanded the old bases of the Henan, Anhui, and Soviet Military Regions.Except for the Jianghuai Military Region, which is under the jurisdiction of the Northern Jiangsu Military Region, the rest of the military regions are under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Military Region.The Henan-Anhui Soviet District, the Western Henan District, the Southern Shaanxi District, and the Tongbai District are now united as one, without any barrier from the enemy.These four military regions have not been united with North China.In addition to making up for the depletion of the field army and the local army for more than a year of fierce fighting, our armed forces have also increased by about 200,000 people, and there will be greater development in the future.Bai Chongxi often said, "Don't be afraid of the Communist Party's evil, only afraid of the Communist Party's rooting." He was right to be afraid.We have not only trees but also forests in all the Jianghuai and Han regions.Not only did it take root, but the branches and leaves were lush.In a very short period of time in the second half of last year, we prematurely implemented the land distribution policy in this area and made some strategic "left" mistakes.But it was corrected immediately, and the experience of the anti-Japanese period was widely used to implement the social policy of reducing rent and interest and the fiscal policy of reasonable burden for all classes.In this way, all social classes that may be united or neutral will be united or neutralized, and their forces will be concentrated against the reactionary ruling forces of the Kuomintang and the few bullies in the countryside that are hated by the majority of the masses.This strategy has clearly succeeded, and the enemy has been completely isolated.Under the coordinated attack of our powerful field army and local army, the enemies trapped in various isolated strongholds, such as Kaifeng and Nanyang, had to abandon the city and flee.The troops commanded by Wang Lingyun, the defender of Nanyang, are the Second Army, the Sixty-fourth Army and some militia groups, and they are now fleeing to Xiangyang.Xiangyang was also a so-called "appeasement area" of the Kuomintang. After the first commander Kang Ze[7] was captured, he was replaced by Song Xilian[8] transferred from Xinjiang.Song Xilian was recently promoted to Xuzhou's deputy commander-in-chief and director of the front-line command post to replace the original Du Yuming[9].Du Yuming had just flown to the northeast from Xuzhou, was defeated in World War I, and fled to Huludao.When Wang Lingyun came to Xiangyang, he probably succeeded Song Xilian as commander.But from Nanyang to Xiangyang, it didn't go very far. Xiangyang is still an isolated stronghold. If Wang Lingyun doesn't run away again, Kang Ze's fate is waiting for him.

According to the publication of "People's Daily" on November 9, 1948. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is a press release drafted by Mao Zedong for Xinhua News Agency. [2] Cao Cao (155-220), a native of Qiao (now Hao County, Anhui), was a statesman and military strategist during the Three Kingdoms period.Zhang Xiu (?—207), a native of Zuli, Wuwei of the Three Kingdoms (now southwest of Jingyuan, Gansu), was the nephew of Zhang Ji, a general of Dong Zhuo.After Zhang Ji's death, he led his troops to station Wancheng (now Nanyang).From 197 to 198, Cao Cao conquered Zhang Xiu several times.Later Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao.

[3] Liu Xiu (6 BC-57 AD), was born in Caiyang, Nanyang (now southwest of Zaoyang, Hubei), and belonged to the royal family of the Western Han Dynasty.At the end of the new dynasty, he raised troops against Wang Mang and joined the Green Forest Army. He proclaimed himself emperor in AD 25 and established the Eastern Han Dynasty, also known as the Later Han Dynasty. [4] Wang Mang (45 BC - 23 AD), the founder of the "New Dynasty".At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, foreign relatives took power.In the eighth year of AD, he proclaimed himself emperor and changed the name of the country to "Xin".In AD 23, the peasant rebel army invaded Chang'an, Wang Mang was killed, and the new dynasty fell.

[5] Bai Chongxi, at that time was the commander-in-chief of the Central China "Bandit Suppression" Command of the Kuomintang Army. [6] Huangwei Corps refers to the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army with Huang Wei as its commander. [7] Kang Ze (1904-1967), a native of Anyue, Sichuan.He used to be the commander of the 15th appeasement area of ​​the Kuomintang Army, and was captured by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in July 1948. [8] Song Xilian (1907-1993), a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan.In August 1948, he served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the "Bandit Suppression" General Headquarters of the Kuomintang Army in Central China and the commander of the Fourteenth Corps. In September, he was transferred to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou "Bandit Suppression" General Headquarters of the Kuomintang Army.

[9] Du Yuming, in October 1948, was transferred from the deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou "bandit suppression" headquarters of the Kuomintang army to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast "bandit suppression" headquarters of the Kuomintang army.